The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be celebrated by Catholics and other Christians worldwide from Jan. 18–25. The theme for 2024, “You shall love the Lord your God ... and your neighbor as ...

It’s a hair-raising prayer, to modern minds. Just rude. Like telling someone that you love and respect him and then telling him he smells bad and he has a 3-year-old’s dress sense and his jokes aren’t ...

Today, January 18, begins the International Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. What do we pray for when we pray for Christian unity? What are the obstacles to unity that need to be overcome? When we ...

Pope Francis said on Friday that the “barbarity of war” should inspire a new push for Christian unity. The pope made the comment in an address to members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting ...

Christians in Bangladesh have been organizing special prayers and gatherings to observe the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Jan. 18-25, to prioritize and promote unity among Christian denominations ...

Pundits, academics, and church leaders alike decry our current age as a time of partisan rancor and disunity. People, we are told, are locked in “echo chambers,” and they refuse to listen to those ...

What will tomorrow’s church be like? Will it be a truly catholic (small “c”) church, a communion of local churches living in visible unity? Or will it be a multiplicity of churches and communities, ...

James Loughran, S.A., in front of the altar where Paul Wattson, S.A., the co-founder of the Society of the Atonement, celebrated his first Mass as a Catholic priest. (Doug Girardot for America) It is ...

NOTHING is more uncertain than prophecy about the profound changes of direction which, from time to time, overtake the human spirit. Who would have guessed, as the seventeenth century drew to an end, ...

Almost a century ago—in April, 1866, to be exact—the noted Presbyterian theologian, Charles Hodge, preached a now long-forgotten sermon on “The Unity of the Church.” While voicing an impassioned plea ...